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TAMPA, Fla. – Back in the day, as Geno Auriemma would say, UConn's regular season always ended with a crescendo. There was Notre Dame, until the Irish left the Big East. Then there was Louisville, until the Cardinals bolted the American Athletic Conference, too. In their place now — and likely for the foreseeable future — is South Florida. Like its two closing-night predecessors, the Bulls are the next best thing in the league in which UConn operates now. But as it relates to UConn, competition has been a theoretical concept this season in the AAC. Let's put it this way: If the regular season was the 1973 Belmont, Auriemma would be Ron Turcotte, bobbing in the...

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TAMPA, Fla. – Back in the day, as Geno Auriemma would say, UConn's regular season always ended with a crescendo. There was Notre Dame, until the Irish left the Big East. Then there was Louisville, until the Cardinals bolted the American Athletic...

TAMPA, Fla. – As just about every freshman who plays college basketball discovers, the season has a tendency to pound them down once January turns to February. Juniors Breanna Stewart and Moriah Jefferson suffered through it two years ago. And look at...

Every game is a learning experience, for those who play and those who watch. Here's what we learned after the UConn women's 87-24 win over Memphis at Gampel Pavilion on Saturday:
1. Path to title: Regardless of what happens Monday, when the...

The Huskies' 2015 football schedule features games against eight teams that played in bowl and playoff games last season. Eight of the 12 opponents won at least eight games. Times and TV will be announced.The first American Athletic Conference football...

HARTFORD — South Florida is in the early stages of rebuilding, and after some encouraging efforts early in the season, reality has been setting in.
"[Inconsistency] is the dilemma you have with a young team," coach Orlando Antigua told...

STORRS — UConn found an old solution to some recent problems.
"We're going to keep playing hard," coach Kevin Ollie said after the Huskies' 67-60 victory against Central Florida on Thursday night. "Keep getting up in the frame. We're going...

STORRS – UConn had this one, outside and in.Showing the offensive balance they had been lacking, and the sense of urgency at the start of a game that had been missing, the Huskies began Thursday night with a barrage of three-point shots, and when...

STORRS – It was a win the Huskies desperately needed, one they were supposed to get and they did. That’s about all.
They let UCF hang around too long, and that puts a bit of a damper on it. Seems like when the Huskies don’t start slow, they...

ORLANDO, Fla. — UConn's spring semester started Tuesday and the women's basketball team boarded another plane, braced to live out of the suitcases that have served as the main fashion accessory in their lives the first two months of the season.
Off to...

STORRS – We are at live at Gampel Pavilion, about 45 minutes before the game, a smattering of players from both UConn and UCF on the court shooting. All the balls appeared to be inflated and bouncing normally, let’s set the scene …
UConn is...

ORLANDO, Fla. – UConn's magical ride through the American Athletic Conference took it once again on Wednesday to the place where dreams come true. At least, that's what it says in the chamber of commerce brochure the tourists clutch on the plane.
How...

Every game is a learning experience, for those who play and those who watch. Here's what we learned after the UConn women's 100-45 win over Central Florida at CFE Arena on Wednesday:
1. The ultimate Top 10: There may never have been a more beloved player...

STORRS — The Huskies are back home, back to the task of rebuilding their season. Ryan Boatright knows where that process has to begin.
"The only thing I can do is get the ball to the open man," Boatright said after UConn's practice Wednesday....

STORRS – The Huskies are back at square one, back to the drawing board, hitting the reset button …
Did I miss anything? They have to beat Central Florida on Thursday night. Everybody has practiced this week, so there are no injury issues....

The postseason is one "Kokomo Bowl" from becoming the next verse in a Beach Boys song: "Miami, Bahamas, come on pretty mama, Camellia, and Boca, this is not a joke-a." Four new bowl games plus the extra championship game means the...

A funny thing happened on the way to oblivion – actually three funny things: Cincinnati was back in its old grind-it-out mold, took San Diego State to overtime and won, 71-62. They couldn't sustain it, though, losing to Virginia Commonwealth two days...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Matt Dayes rushed for two touchdowns and Jacoby Brissett threw for 262 yards and a score as the North Carolina State withstood a late rally by Central Florida for a 34-27 victory in the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl.Shadrach...